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title: "Beyond Lion Rock: The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways"
brand: "gavin young"
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# Beyond Lion Rock: The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways

**Brand:** gavin young
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- **What is this?** Beyond Lion Rock: The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways by gavin young
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Beyond Lion Rock: The Story of Cathay Pacific Airways

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## Customer Reviews

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    Ripping yarns about the early days of Cathay Pacific.
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 13, 2013*

This is a must read for anyone who is a current employee, past employee or offspring of Cathay Pacific employees. In fact it's a great read for any aviation historian buff. Fascinating how this airline was still flying DC3's and 4 until the very early sixities! Look at this airline now! Some very interesting chapters which bring back memories when I was a child in HKG with the old man as one of the early Convair Flight Engineers, in particular the runway departure from centreline on take off into Hong Kong Harbour and the very sad mid air explosion in 1972. Poor old Flight Engineer Hickey survived the Convair sinking into Honk Kong harbour only to meet his premature demise in the 1972 mid air explosion. My old lady (an ex Cathay flight hostess) and the old man ( started his Cathay flight eng days on the DC6 and the Electra) say this bloke Hickey was a true gentleman. Full credit to Syd (an Aussie) and Roy ( a Yank and a Texan at that) for their grand vision that has now evolved into one the great global service airlines!!!

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    Brilliant
  

*by J***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2012*

A "commissioned" book that even the staid London Financial Times reviewer found a "riveting and .. rumbustious" tale? Only Gavin Young could do that surely? When the famous House of Swires (used to be Butterfield and Swires, founded in 1816) who own Cathay Pacific asked the author to write a history of the airline he was reluctant to accept the project. On investigating the wealth of documents and talking with former Cathay Pacific Airways founders and pilots Gavin Young changed his mind."Here was an exciting adventure yarn to be told!"Tell it he does, in all its exciting details of early flying in the old Dakota's, props chewing the monsoons as they gasped `over the hump' and into Hong Kong and, subsequently, into a future of 747 `Heavy' luxury jets with what is reputed to be, the best airline service with the best First Class in the world.A great little history of aviation and innovation and of the company `Taipans' in old Hong Kong.

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    Good background on Cathay pacific and written in a simple
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 17, 2016*

Good background on Cathay pacific and written in a simple, interesting and easy to read style. It's a bit dated now, only going up to 1988. Still an interesting background of the early days of the airline and a good read for any aviation enthusiast or Hong konger

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